Word: squadron
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eight-line dispatch from New York brings the news that twenty vessels of the Navy's Suicide Squadron" have reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible...
...tumult and the shouting of the war have died away. Tales of stark daring fall on ears that have heard hundreds of such tales before. The seamen of the "Suicide Squadron" will not get, and doubtless do not expect, the welcome that greeted those who returned earlier. Yet the world will be eternally, though silently, grateful to those men who, forsaking the paths of safety and even the comparative ease of showing bravery in the heat of battle, have quietly gone about their hazardous task. Theirs, unassuming and unadvertised, is the highest glory...
Chester Robinson Tutein, Eng.14-17, 185th Aero Squadron, First Pursuit Group, A.E.F., was killed in an aeroplane accident at Bar-le Duc, France, on November...
...addition to the Croix de Cuerre, Legion of Honor, and Medaille Militaire, which were awarded him before his death, David E. Putnam '20, first lieutenant, Air Service, 139th Aero Squadron, has received the Distinguished Service Cross from the United States Government...
According to an announcement by the United States Shipping Board, since the establishment of its squadron of Merchant Marine Training Ships in January, 1918, to April 1 of this year, 22,523 American citizens have been accepted for training on the ships as apprentices, of whom the majority were under 25 years of age. The course of training is two months and graduates are shipped in crews of both coastwise and ocean-going vessels under the American flag...